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Traveling from Then to Now, I'm looking for ways to explain how a simple world, appearing complex, is still simple. Trust Yourself. Not the famous, rich, glamorous, lionized or glorified.

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It must have been Biden who bombed Iran!!

02.03.2026 22:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So, it was Lauren Boebert!! Revelation!

02.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think the U.S. is lying. Republicans Lie about everything. Epstein Transparency, Bring down inflation on Day One!

02.03.2026 22:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hegseth on Iran attacks: 'This is not Iraq, this is not endless' US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth offered few details about the operation, leaving questions unanswered about the scope or duration.

Do we believe anything any Republican says anymore? When we strike 1000 targets per day, do we think Iran WON'T strike back?

Hegseth on Iran attacks: 'This is not Iraq, this is not endless' share.google/OpmyzUYkgBVE...

02.03.2026 22:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why did the US attack Iran? Is the US at war? Here's what to know What we know so far about the US-Israeli strikes against Iran and what might come next.

Between Trump and Netenyahu, they know how to order attacks, but stabilizing? Rebuilding? Too difficult.

Why did the US attack Iran? Is the US at war? Here's what to know share.google/XM5aC7AO0UXx...

01.03.2026 05:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good for you!

28.02.2026 00:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Majority of Americans say government is not protecting them from toxic chemicals | CNN A survey says 5 out of 6 Americans want the US government to do more to protect them and their families from toxins in food, drinking water and consumer products.

This is a major reason that the Republican century-long desire to avoid regulation and enforcement has worried me my entire life.
This is what they defund and deregulate.

Majority of Americans say government is not protecting them from toxic chemicals | CNN share.google/mc9OaZC0Al0a...

28.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I TOTALLY disagree that "we don't
know what they will do when they get into office."
And while many people don't participate in political discourse, don't be an ostrich and hide from the complexity. Most people learn about cancer once they, or someone close, is diagnosed.

27.02.2026 01:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We need for credible journalists to start up a thousand new media platforms. MeidasTouch did it. Punch Bowl has done it, but it is not easy.
Consistent production, focused reporting, marketing to let people know: BlueSky wasn't on that list.

27.02.2026 01:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I would prefer not to slag, just get stuff done. But in a democracy, there must be "persuasion."
Post-persuasion, after they are all imprisoned for 15-20 years, I'd rather not slag Republicans, just cover them with a little dirt.

27.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I only have expectations of competence. He failed a decade ago. But he's Republican which explains everything.

27.02.2026 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was always able to stay away from all the BS. I worked midnight to 8a, radio news and no one was ever awake to say anything to me.

27.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hope you're writing!

27.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to know. I've always been able to be straightforward with SS Chicagoans. They may not like what is said, but no one is trying to twist it.

27.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I said Patel was corrupt, I wouldn't be saying anything which everyone already knows, but impeachment, charges of corruption need to be proven. These idiots keep posting their crimes like punk gangsters in a break in.

27.02.2026 00:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

guests to say he's a "Lying SOB," and they have to follow up with . . . "well, THAT lie hasn't been proven yet."

27.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is true. It took almost six years for them to begin saying that he was LYING. To be fair, it took me a long time to call a jackass and "jackass" too, but I realize, that as a private individual, I don't have lawyers telling me I can't say something without proof. (Which is why they need their

27.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There may be a vast list of people who need to come in before we get to Trump. I believe that THIS Republican Party, will subpoena Jeffrey Epstein to testify, wait for a response, before moving on to a live donkey in their haste to get "to the bottom of this."

27.02.2026 00:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Following the Grilling of Hillary Clinton:
Questions: Are we now going to complete the questioning of every person who never knew Jeffrey Epstein, before moving on to the people who parked his car at Mar-A-Lago, left his dry cleaning at the door, took the order at Starbucks from his assistants?

27.02.2026 00:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Was it a Sinclair or Fox station?

26.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People of MN have to continue bringing stories to MN media. What ICE continues to do, can only be told by Minnesotans. I was in 9/11 and know the timeline.

26.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The World Economic Forum had been part of Epstein's interests for decades.

26.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

social services (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, infrastructure, universal healthcare, USAID, and on and on, if we only tax discretionary expenditures appropriately.

26.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PACs should be capped to the same donations to the candidates. Everything above the cap is taxed at 2000% per cent. Physical labor isn't included as a financial contribution.
Question: what would the tax be on Elon Musk's $250b to Republican PACs in 2024? (add 3 zeros and double).
Could we

26.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

additional revenues. Question: with current revenues and a massive diminishment of Republican fascist expenditures, can many things be done? Yes. But more can be done through Creative Taxation, applied to both penalizing and incentivizing corporate and individual behaviors. Donations to "dark money"

26.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

and in fact, downstate Illinois.
Progressives need to slow down on "what are we going to do," and step up getting majorities and then DOING.
Just as Republicans and Independents "didn't think" Project 2025 would be enacted, they also "don't think" a national safety net CAN be enacted without

26.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I agree that we have to move the COUNTRY, Left, but disagree that the focus should be inside the Democratic Party.
The job of Al Green and Hakeem Jeffries is different.
The voices of AOC, Sanders and Kat are important, but not to Democrats, but to the next states on either side of Illinois,

26.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Can" not "will." There is also the possibility that he is mentally incapable.

26.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What Ukraine needs is not just arms and equipment. They need a separate front to open up against Russia. I'm looking at their Asian or Southern borders.

26.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would you define this as "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse?"
How many were Somali Medicaid Fraudsters?

26.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0